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Family challenges Lisburn City Council over UDR memorial The family of Michael Power, who was shot dead in 1987, are challenging Lisburn City Council over its decision to erect a monument to the UDR in Lisburn city centre. According to the Power family the UDR was implicated in Michael's killing and they say the memorial planned by Lisburn Council "is an insult to the many nationalists killed by the UDR and its successor the RIR." Interview: Faris Arouri, Peace and Freedom Youth Forum 
24-year-old Palestinian Faris Arouri is chairperson of the Peace and Freedom Youth Forum, based in the West Bank. His organisation lobbies political parties on national and social issues. Faris is from Ramallah, a city in the centre of the West Bank. It has been declared for a long time that the capital of a Palestinian state would be Jerusalem, but Ramallah is the capital in the interim. Faris comes from a political family which was active in the Palestinian National Movement, a local branch of the PLO when that organisation was illegal. When he was in Ireland recently, attending a youth conference, An Phoblacht got his views on the current crisis in Palestine, which has been overshadowed by the Israeli invasion of Lebanon Photo: Faris Arouri Ógra urge activists to mobilise and plan 
At the recent meeting of its National Executive on Saturday, 19 August, Ógra Shinn Féin formally ratified the new logo agreed at National Congress earlier in the year. + Ógra Shinn Féin formally launched their recent publication looking at the Hunger Strike of 1981 on Saturday, 12 August. Awaiting the Lark is a collection of personal memories, recollections and accounts from various republicans about the Hunger Strike of 1981, and was launched in the Felons Club in West Belfast. Raymond McCartney MLA, Dominic Adams, Michelle Gildernew MP and Séanna Walsh performed the launch. LUAS firm linked to illegal Israeli settlements 
Sinn Féin Party Chair and MEP for Dublin Mary Lou McDonald has expressed concerns about the company operating the LUAS light rail system in Dublin. Photo: Mary Lou McDonald Private property rights secondary to needs of people - Crowe 
Sinn Féin's Social Affairs spokesperson Seán Crowe TD this week said he was not surprised at the results of an Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) monthly house price index which showed that house prices in the 26 Counties were up 15.4% in July this year. Arguing that the 26 County Government is interested only in 'creating the appearance of doing something, rather than actively challenging vested interests' he pointed out that the right to private property should always be secondary to the needs of the people. Photo: Seán Crowe An Ghaelscolaíocht: Suíomh Streachailt Bhí go leor sna meáin an tseachtain seo faoin Ghaelscolaíocht agus ach go háirithe an conspóid, a bhain le alt san Indo (agus ní ghlacfainn focal an Indo mar fhírinne choíche, go háirithe i leith na Gaeilge de) bunaithe ar ráiteas tagartha ón Aire Oideachais, go raibh Gaelscoileanna ag coinneáil uimhreacha na ndaltaí i ngaelscoileanna síos d'aonturas. A leithead de raiméis níor chuala mé riamh, is soiléir cé chomh sásta agus a bhéas Kevin Myers leis an bhfoilseachán céanna. Concern at exploitation of migrant workers and A closer look at liberalisation Hunger Strikers remembered in Derrygonnelly 
A large crowd gathered for a Hunger Strike Commemoration in Derrygonnelly, County Fermanagh last Saturday night. Photo: Councillor PJ Branley and Councillor Bernice Swift Clones tragedy remembered 84 years on 
Fermanagh IRA leader Commandant Matt Fitzpatrick was remembered last Sunday, 84 years after his death. Friends and family members gathered for a short ceremony at his grave after a memorial mass at Drumalee, Belturbet, County Cavan where Matt was buried 84 years ago. 
It is with great sadness that we report the death of our friend and Troops Out Movement comrade Colm Reaney, shortly after 6pm on the evening of 18 August. Photo: Colm Reaney The week in quotes |
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